Published using Google Docs
Holistic Management Resource List
Updated automatically every 5 minutes

Reversing Global Warming while Meeting Human Needs

Restoring Grassland Ecosystems with Holistic Management

Planet-TECH Associates

For more info on Holistic Management, see www.savoryinstitute.com

Reading List and Videos

Popular Journals | Books | Professional Journals | Allan Savory Writings | Videos, Endorsements & Awards | Other Resources

Popular Journals

Using Primeval Methods to Fight Modern Abuses of Agricultural Lands

New York Times

Darius Dixon, June 7, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/06/07/07climatewire-using-primeval-methods-to-fight-modern-abuse-51190.html

Method That Turns Wastelands Green Wins 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge

Fast Company

By Cliff Kuang, June 2, 2010

http://www.fastcompany.com/1655491/method-turns-wastelands-green-wins-2010-buckminster-fuller-challenge

How Cows (Grass-Fed Only) Could Save the Planet

Time Magazine

Lisa Abend Monday, Jan. 25, 2010

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1953692,00.html

Holistic Land Management: Key to Global Stability
Forbes
Terry Waghorn, 12/20/2012

http://www.forbes.com/sites/terrywaghorn/2012/12/20/holistic-land-management-key-to-global-stability/

Greener Pastures

Seed Magazine

By John Thackara / June 3, 2010

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/Greener_Pastures/P1/

Greener pastures: How cows could help in the fight against climate change

The Guardian

Judith D Schwartz, Friday 22 July 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/22/cows-climate-change

How to Save the Grasslands: Bring in More Cattle
Time Magazine
Judith D. Schwartz Tuesday, Sept. 07, 2010
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2016079,00.html#ixzz2BfTbRW23

The Brown Revolution: Increasing Agricultural Productivity Naturally

The Atlantic

Lisa M. Hamilton, Sep 29 2011

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/09/the-brown-revolution-increasing-agricultural-productivity-naturally/245748/        

Reversing desertification with livestock

Our World 2.0, United Nations University

Robert Blasiak, May 30, 2012

http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/reversing-desertification-with-livestock/

New breed of ranchers shapes a sustainable West
CSMonitor
Todd Wilkinson, July 29, 2012                 
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2012/0729/New-breed-of-ranchers-shapes-a-sustainable-West

Restorative Grazing
Yes Magazine
Dan Dagget, Sep 30, 1997
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/sustaining-watersheds-of-the-pacific-northwest/906

Just Planting Trees Won’t Stop March of Deserts

Judith D. Schwartz, June 16, 2012

http://www.psmag.com/environment/seeing-drylands-trees-42998/

Grazing for Change

BayNature

Cindy Spring, April 01, 2004

http://baynature.org/articles/grazing-for-change/

An Interview with Seth Itzkan: Using Holistic Management to Address Desertification and Climate Change

Worldwatch Nourishing the Planet Blog

Carol Dreibelbis, November 11, 2012

http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/an-interview-with-seth-itzkan/

Books

Gardeners of Eden: Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature

Dan Dagget

Thatcher Charitable Trust (August 2005)

http://www.amazon.com/Gardeners-Eden-Rediscovering-Importance-Nature/dp/096662291X

Beyond the Rangeland Conflict: Toward a West That Works

Dan Dagget

Good Stewards Project; 2nd edition (January 2000)

http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Rangeland-Conflict-Toward-Works/dp/0966622901

For the Love of Land: Global Case Studies of Grazing in Nature's Image

Jim Howell

BookSurge Publishing, 2008

http://www.amazon.com/For-Love-Land-Studies-Grazing/dp/143921610X

Comeback Farms: Rejuvenating Soils, Pastures and Profits with Livestock Grazing Management

Greg Judy

Green Park Press (August 2008)

http://www.amazon.com/Comeback-Farms-Rejuvenating-Livestock-Management/dp/0972159738/

No Risk Ranching: Custom Grazing on Leased Land

Greg Judy

Green Park Press (August 2002)

http://www.amazon.com/No-Risk-Ranching-Custom-Grazing/dp/0963246089/

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan

Penguin (August 28, 2007)

http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Meals/dp/0143038583/

Foraging Behavior: Managing to Survive in a World of Change - Behavioral Principles for Human, Animal, Vegetation, and Ecosystem Management

Frederick D. Provenza,

Utah State University Press, 2003.

http://www.amazon.com/Foraging-Behavior-Behavioral-Principles-Vegetation/dp/B002M2V3W8/

Holistic Management, A New Framework for Decision Making

Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield

Island Press, Washington, D.C., 1999

http://www.amazon.com/Holistic-Management-Framework-Decision-Making/dp/155963488X

Revolution on the Range: The Rise of a New Ranch in the American West

Courtney White

Island Press, 2008

http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Range-Rise-Ranch-American/dp/1597261742/

Professional Journals

Alfaro-Arguello R., A.W. Diemont S., 2010. Steps toward sustainable ranching: An emergy evaluation of conventional and holistic management in Chiapas, Mexico. Agricultural Systems 103 (2010) 639–646

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X10000983

                                                                             

Earl, J.M., Jones, C.E., 1996. The need for a new approach to grazing management—is cell grazing the answer? Rangeland Journal 18, 327–350.

http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/RJ9960327.htm

Gill, C., 2009. Doing What Works, Range Magazine, Fall 2009

http://www.rangemagazine.com/features/fall-09/fa09-what_works.pdf

Jacobo, E.J., Rodríguez, A.M., Bartoloni, N., Deregibus, V.A., 2006. Rotational grazing effects on rangeland vegetation at a farm scale. Rangeland Ecology and Management 59, 249–257.

http://srmjournals.org/doi/abs/10.2111/05-129R1.1?journalCode=rama

Knapp AK, Blair JM, Briggs JM, Collins SL, Hartnett DC, Johnson LC, Towne EG. 1999. The keystone role of bison in North American tallgrass prairie. BioScience 49: 39–50.

http://temperate.lternet.edu/collins/biblio/keystone-role-bison-north-american-tallgrass-prairie

Porteous J, Smith F, 2008. Farming a Climate Change Solution, ECOS Magazine, Vol 141, February - March, 2008, pp 28-31.

http://www.ecosmagazine.com/?paper=EC141p28

Provenza, F., 2013. Get Ready for a Shift in Perspective: Connecting Humans, Animals and Landscapes for the Good of All, Inside Behavior Analysis, Volume 5, No 1, February 2013.

Savory, A. 1983, The Savory Grazing Method or Holistic Resource Management. Savory, Rangelands 5:155-159.

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3900847?uid=3739696

Savory, A. 2000. Letters to the Editor. Rangelands. June. 2000. 22(3). pp 32-33.

                

Stinner, D. 1997. Biodiversity As an Organizing Principle in Agroecosystem Management: Case Studies of Holistic Resource Management Practitioners in the USA. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, vol. 62:199-213

http://www.ecoagriculture.org/greatest_hits_details.php?id=889

Teague, W.R., Provenza, F.D., Norton, B.E., Steffens, T., Barnes, M.K., Kothmann, M.M., Roath, R.L., 2009. Benefits of multi-paddock grazing management on range- lands: limitations of experimental grazing research and knowledge gaps. In: Schroder, H.G. (Ed.), Grasslands: Ecology, Management and Restoration. Nova Science Publishers, New York, pp. 41–80.        

Teague, R. 2011. Grazing management impacts on vegetation, soil biota and soil chemical, physical and hydrological properties in tall grass prairie. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment.         Volume 141, Issues 3–4, May 2011, Pages 310–322

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880911000934

Walsh D. 2009. The holistic management approach: Etiwanda Station, NSW, in DKCRC Working Paper 57, The Central Australian Grazing Strategies Project Working Paper Series. Desert Knowledge CRC, Alice Springs, Australia.                                                             

http://nintione.com.au/publication/dkcrc-0747

Weber K.T., Gokhale B.S., 2011. Effect of grazing on soil-water content in semiarid rangelands of southeast Idaho, Journal of Arid Environments, Volume 75, Issue 5, May 2011, Pages 464–470

http://journals2.scholarsportal.info/details.xqy?uri=/01401963/v75i0005/464_eogoscisrosi.xml

Weber, K. T.,  Horst, S., 2011. Desertification and livestock grazing: The roles of sedentarization, mobility and rest. Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2011, 1:19 doi:10.1186/2041-7136-1-19

http://www.pastoralismjournal.com/content/1/1/19

Allan Savory Writings and Interviews

Holistic Management, A New Framework for Decision Making

Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield

Island Press, Washington, D.C., 1999

http://www.amazon.com/Holistic-Management-Framework-Decision-Making/dp/155963488X

Healing the World’s Grasslands, Rangelands and Savannas

Worldwatch, Nourishing Planet blog

Allan Savory

http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/the-savory-institute-healing-the-worlds-grasslands-rangelands-and-savannas-livestock-buckminster-fuller-institute-nourishing-the-planet-worldwatch-institute-usda-climate-change-internatnional-society/

Reversing Desertification

Living on Earth radio interview

Week of June 4, 2010                         

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=10-P13-00023&segmentID=7

The Savory Grazing Method or Holistic Resource Management

Savory, A. 1983. Rangelands 5:155-159.

A Global Strategy for Addressing Global Climate Change          

Allan Savory, 2008

http://www.savoryinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/GlobalStrategyforAddressingClimateChange2_1.pdf

Letters to the Editor

Savory, A. 2000. Rangelands, June. 2000. 22(3). pp 32-33.

Videos, Endorsements, Awards

HRH Prince Charles Endorsement of Allan Savory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsmhTACrfOk

Allan Savory - 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award Winner

http://challenge.bfi.org/winners/challenge_winners/2010

Virgin Earth Challenge announces leading organisations

http://www.virgin.com/people-and-planet/blog/virgin-earth-challenge-announces-leading-organisations

TED Community Profile

http://www.ted.com/profiles/1505378

Allan Savory - TED’s “Ads Worth Spreading”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOmlw2eiW1I&feature=related

Allan Savory - Keeping Cattle: cause or cure for climate crisis?

Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability lecture, Dublin, Ireland, 2009

http://vimeo.com/8239427#

Allan Savory - Keeping Cattle: cause or cure for climate crisis? (EXTRACTS)

Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability lecture, Dublin, Ireland, 2009

http://vimeo.com/8291896#

Savory Institute - Holistic Planned Grazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxgDcBHTFm4&feature=related

Reversing global warming with livestock?: Seth Itzkan at TEDxSomerville

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOpoRdpvlh0

Allan Savory - Lecture at Tufts University, January 25, 2013

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/CIERP/News/more/Allan-Savory-Fletcher-Jan2013

Allan Savory - TED talk: How to green the desert and reverse climate change, February 27, 2013

http://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change.html

Other Resources

Savory Institute

www.savoryinstitute.com

Africa Center for Holistic Management

http://achmonline.squarespace.com/

The Natural Fix? The Role of Ecosystems in Climate Mitigation

UNEP 2009

http://www.grida.no/publications/rr/natural-fix/